mrflynn03 Posted October 1, 2022 Report Share Posted October 1, 2022 Jimmy Carter turns 98 today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted October 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2022 40 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: Jimmy Carter turns 98 today. My Dad turns 82. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted October 1, 2022 Report Share Posted October 1, 2022 10 minutes ago, rico said: My Dad turns 82. Happy Birthday to your Pop! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted October 3, 2022 Report Share Posted October 3, 2022 I know it's nothing like other events where people know exactly where they were at i.e.....when Kennedy was shot, Reagan assassination attempt....or obviously 9/11 but on this day 27 years ago OJ verdict was announced and I know exactly where I was. Broad Ripple apartment just watching in disbelief. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 3, 2022 Report Share Posted October 3, 2022 56 minutes ago, Seeking6 said: I know it's nothing like other events where people know exactly where they were at i.e.....when Kennedy was shot, Reagan assassination attempt....or obviously 9/11 but on this day 27 years ago OJ verdict was announced and I know exactly where I was. Broad Ripple apartment just watching in disbelief. That may have been the origins of my rule there is no woman worth going to prison over. That and the shawshank redemption. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 On this day in 2000, 17 sailors died in the terrorist attack on the USS Cole... 😓 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 On this date 75 years ago First Lieutenant Chuck Yeager becomes the first man to break the speed of sound... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 5 minutes ago, IUFLA said: On this date 75 years ago First Lieutenant Chuck Yeager becomes the first man to break the speed of sound... I just saw something on history or discovery about it the other day. I don't know how guys like him walked around with all that extra weight between their legs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison22 Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 Teddy Roosevelt shot in Wisconsin in 1912, then gave an 85 minute speech as blood seeped into his white shirt. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-oct-14-1912-teddy-roosevelt-shot-chest-campaign-stop 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 15, 2022 Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 Apparently Oct 14 is big D energy day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison22 Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 (edited) Old Ironsides. She went 33-0 in sea battles. Better than the 32-0 1976 NCAA championship team. On this day in history, Oct. 21, 1797, legendary warship USS Constitution launched in Boston https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-oct-21-1797-legendary-warship-uss-constitution-launched-boston Edited October 21, 2022 by Madison22 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Madison22 said: She went 33-0 in sea battles. On this day in history, Oct. 21, 1797, legendary warship USS Constitution launched in Boston https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-oct-21-1797-legendary-warship-uss-constitution-launched-boston Well I learned something new. 1965 wasn't the first time marines landed in Danang Vietnam. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/original-frigates/uss-constitution-americas-ship-of-state/world-cruise.html Constitution arrived at Da Nang, in southern Vietnam, on 10 May 1845. A Vietnamese delegation came to tour the ship, as was customary. However, one of the delegates breached protocol by smuggling a letter to Percival. Assuming the priest’s righteousness, Percival decided within an hour to storm into the town. Eighty armed men, among them 30 Marines, disembarked Constitution and followed the captain to the town’s administrative palaces. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 1 hour ago, mrflynn03 said: Well I learned something new. 1965 wasn't the first time marines landed in Danang Vietnam. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/original-frigates/uss-constitution-americas-ship-of-state/world-cruise.html Constitution arrived at Da Nang, in southern Vietnam, on 10 May 1845. A Vietnamese delegation came to tour the ship, as was customary. However, one of the delegates breached protocol by smuggling a letter to Percival. Assuming the priest’s righteousness, Percival decided within an hour to storm into the town. Eighty armed men, among them 30 Marines, disembarked Constitution and followed the captain to the town’s administrative palaces. That was the Old Ironsides Constitution, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 22 minutes ago, IUFLA said: That was the Old Ironsides Constitution, right? Yeah. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison22 Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 Oct 25, 1944 First Japanese kamikaze attacks on US navy. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-oct-25-1944-kamikaze-suicide-pilots-attack-us-navy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 Couple days late but Oct 23rd 1983 was the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison22 Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 The British cavalry’s "Charge of the Light Brigade," famously dramatized by poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, took place on St. Crispin’s Day, Oct. 25, 1854, during the Crimean War. "Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die," Tennyson wrote of the hopeless and ill-fated attack. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 24 minutes ago, Madison22 said: The British cavalry’s "Charge of the Light Brigade," famously dramatized by poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, took place on St. Crispin’s Day, Oct. 25, 1854, during the Crimean War. "Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die," Tennyson wrote of the hopeless and ill-fated attack. Wasn’t that Country Joe and the Fish? Oh wait, wrong words same meaning 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 24 minutes ago, Drroogh said: Wasn’t that Country Joe and the Fish? Oh wait, wrong words same meaning and it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for? don't ask me, I don't give a damn next stop is vietnam and it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates well there ain't no time to wonder why whoopee! we're all gonna die 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison22 Posted October 26, 2022 Report Share Posted October 26, 2022 Oct. 26, 1825, Erie Canal opens https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-oct-26-1825-erie-canal-opens-transforming-american-infrastructure-commerce 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison22 Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Ronald Reagan elected President, Nov 4, 1980. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-nov-4-1980-ronald-reagan-elected-president Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Madison22 said: Ronald Reagan elected President, Nov 4, 1980. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-nov-4-1980-ronald-reagan-elected-president 😁 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 So a miscellaneous rambling... I saw where Dave Butz (yeah, I know he was a Boilermaker) passed away... I'd met him in 1980 at the Belle-Scott dinner where a member of the Belleville, Illinois business community would sponsor airmen (like me) for an evening of community good will (and a righteous dinner). I'd had a root canal that morning and was miserable all that day. I got to the dinner, and my sponsor was a great guy. Took me to the bar, and sponsored a little scotch self medicating 🙂...Dave Butz was there as one of the guest speakers. Ended up having a great (and long) conversation with my sponsor and Butz (this dude was huge) about sports, especially the NFL. One of those nights in your life that stands out... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 While living in Indianapolis, Dr. Richard Gatling, on Nov 4th, 1862 patented the Gatling gun. Go Hoosiers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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